auto save shall also save drafts

[rizajur]

Auto Save shall also save drafts or add an option for it please

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

auto save on, battery empty, file not saved, draft gone

Describe the solution you'd like Option like checkbox for save drafts

Describe alternatives you've considered Remind user to save

Additional context

gone work

[LeSnake04]

Maybe this project can build something similar to LibreOffice document recovery.

[PhilDevProg]

~~Looks like a duplicate of https://github.com/flxzt/rnote/issues/229 to me.~~

[flxzt]

Not entirely, crash recovery and draft autosaving is slightly different. We could think about using tmp or some other default dir to autosave drafts like tmp/draft-{uuid}.rnote And display a dialog when the app finds those files on startup

[LeSnake04]

I think this should be rather easy to implement. You can assign me.

[CySlider]

Please add this feature. You are so close to finally provide a One Note experience on Linux.

The usual workflow is

• Press global hotkey to open new draft
• Dump whatever you currently have that you want to keep in there, be it a screenshot or text.
• Continue with what you are working on

I don't want to have to press a save button and it needs to survive a system crash

Saving in /tmp is not a good idea as it gets wiped by the system now and then. Better is to specify a draft directory

[LeSnake04]

@CySlider Thanks for the feedback I moved it to ".local/share/rnote" (or the win/mac equivalent) in the pr